Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop functionality.

But for more features and flexibility, it's better to go with a good code editor or an IDE. For this tutorial, I'll be using Visual Studio Code. You can get it on any of the three operating systems.

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...